Game



H. KAUFMAN.

GAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, 1920.

1,38 1,563. Patented J une 14, 1921.

Wifi '9) STRIKESI 5TRIKE5 Home HERMAN XUFMAN, or NNW` HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

' GAME.

Application nled nai-ch 22, 1920. serial No.

To all whom t may concem:

e it known that I, HERMAN KeUrMAN, a citizen of the United States, resldlng at ew aven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Games; and

I do hereby declare the following, when taken 1n connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact h description of the same, and drawings constitute part of this and represent, in-

Figure l a plan view of a constructed in accordance tion.

Fig. 2. a plan view of one of the cages detached. y

Fig. 3. a side view of the same.

ig. 4. a sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1. y

Fig. 5. a sectional view on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

This invention relates to an improvement in games and particularly to a paratus for playing a form of base-ball, te object of the invention being to produce a device in which the several plays of baseball may be simulated; and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claim.

n carrying out my invention, I employ a box 6 of suitable size, having a bottom 7, sidesI 8 and 9, and ends 10 and 11,'the end 10 projecting below the bottom so that the box stands in an inclined position when placed upon a table. Resting upon the bottom is a iield 12 which is shorter than the bottom so vas to leave a space`13 between the which Said application,

game apparatus with my invenupper end of the field and the end 10 ofthe:

box. The inner face of the end 11 is'formed with a series pf notches 14.

The field is laid out like a baseball field and at the points representing the bases and the fielders, are cages 15, each formed from a strip of sheet-metal bent Ainto semi-circular form and mounted upon a pin 16 so as to freely turn thereon. Mounted on the field Specication of Letters Patent.

.pockets 22 or 23, it counts Patented June 14, 1921.

at the pitchers box, is a housing 17 in which 1s mounted a spring plunger 18, and at home-plate is mounted a disk 19 free to rotate on its pin. At each side of the field near the upper end, are two pairs of reversely inclined fences 20 and 21 forming pockets 22 and 23 between them. The various notches 14 are marked to indicate plays.

A small ball or marble is placed inthe ousing 17 and the plunger operated to project the ball. If the ball hits home-plate, it will rebound therefrom and return down the field. If it is' caught by either of the cages and held, the player is out, but if the ball strikes one side of one of the cages, it will turn that cage and escape, and if not caught by one of the other cages, will pass on into one of the notches in the end 11, and the position indicated by the notch will be taken by one of a series of men in the form of disks of contrastin colors to indicate the different teams. ff the ball rolls ofi" the field into thespace 13, it counts as a strike. If the ball rolls into one of' the as a foul ball; vand when one side has three'men out, the other side plays, and the score is kept in the same yway as in regular baseball.

I claim:

A game apparatus comprising a field formed at its upper end with a space extending transversely across the field, they bottom of the space being belowthe surface of the field, `a horizontally arranged rotatably mounted disk in the center of the field adjacent to the edge of the said depressed space,

va pocket'on each side of the field, `a series y e y'HERMAN KAUFMA1\I.

Witnesses:

ALBERT; QUINTO, W. BENNY SmGALL. 

